Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole...
by jjgreen on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:40AM
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Anti-Fascism is not new, but "antifa" is an invention of German Nazis in 2016, https://www.einprozent.de/hallesaale-steuergelder-fuer-extre... the name shortened and popularised by Breitbart https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/11/25/german-city-accu...
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Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole...
by lippel82 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:02AM
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No, Antifa is certainly not an "invention" from 2016. Growing up in the 90s in Germany, local Antifa groups were a very normal and common phenomenon.
Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole...
by DanBC on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:05AM
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Wikipedia has an "antifa" page in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&dir=prev&a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa&type=revis...
Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole...
by jjgreen on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:14AM
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I stand corrected, thank you
Re:White nationalist group posing as antifa called for viole...
by masnao on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:33AM
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you are half correct, but welcome to the downvote brigade of people going against the hive mind.
both antifa (term from the 30s and reused in Europe when neonazis showed up in the 90s) and BLM were term widely abused (and maybe even introduced) by the Russian troll army in the wake of US social movements after Occupy.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/activi...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...